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It's quite strange that the article immediately jumps to the conclusion that is (only) the police that is behaving better. Why don't they even pose the possibi
by jbmorgado 10y ago
It's quite strange that the article immediately jumps to the conclusion that is (only) the police that is behaving better.
Why don't they even pose the possibility that the people being policed, knowing there is a camera, either behave better or at least, knowing there is a camera, don't make false claims about police mistreatment, knowing that the police now has proof about what really happened?
- dbwdyhtbaby 10y agoThe article explicitly states that the drastic decline report rates were the same in weeks where they weren't wearing the cameras.
- nrclark 10y agoCould the decline be explained by the Hawthorne effect? It's been pretty well proven people behave differently when they know they're being studied. Being subjects in the study could have affected their behavior far more than the presence/lack of cameras.
- jbmorgado 10y agoExactly and that only reinforces my point. The policemen would know when they where using the cameras or not and could react accordingly, the people being arrested or having any interaction with the police wouldn't, so they behaved properly in both occasions and/or didn't make false claims about mistreatment by the police.